Every child, no matter their starting point or background and no matter their additional and different needs, should have an equitable chance of success at school.
The International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme stands in a proud tradition of reflective educators incorporating best practice into international schools.
Occupational and Physical Therapy in Educational Environments covers the major issues involved in providing lawful, team-oriented, and effective occupational and physical therapy services for students with disabilities in public schools.
The common image of the secretary or personal assistant is that of a quiet "e;Miss Jones"e; type - not usually expected to have the courage (or the right) to speak out on something they are passionate about.
The aim of this book is to explore how teachers, students and parents can be given more of a say in the education system - in how schools are organised, and in what and how children learn.
Es muss auf den ersten Blick überraschen, dass es bisher noch kein Lehrbuch zum Thema „Pädagogische Institutionen“ gibt, und mehr noch, die Institutio- perspektive in den Diskussionen in der Disziplin Erziehungswissenschaft nicht systematisch behandelt wird.
In The Best Dang Job in the World, Bill Rezak creates a fictional campus to highlight characteristics, attributes, and behaviors which are key to success in leading an institution of higher learning.
Uncover award-winning educator Samuel Nix's field-tested leadership cycle in six steps, designed with practical strategies and abundant insight from years of extensive work in educational administration.
It is becoming clear to educational managers that successful schools are schools which take pastoral care seriously and train their managers in pastoral leadership.
Dancing to Learn: Cognition, Emotion, and Movement explores the rationale for dance as a medium of learning to help engage educators and scientists to explore the underpinnings of dance, and dancers as well as members of the general public who are curious about new ways of comprehending dance.
An Educator's Guide to Project-Based Learning will inspire practitioners to implement project-based learning effectively and identifies the importance of creative and innovative classrooms for highly successful educational outcomes.
Illustrated with numerous case studies-many drawn from the author's work as a forensic psychologist-this book identifies 19 myths and misconceptions about youth violence, from ordinary bullying to rampage shootings.
This book shares the LEAD (Leadership Enrichment and Development) method, a framework for supporting and facilitating leadership identity development for women in higher education.
This book brings together a collective of Women Leaders in Healthcare to share their real-life leadership journey in the Asian continent, from a personal angle (heart) and grounded on science (data).
Young people today know trouble from a host of sources: poverty, sexism and racism; the storms of a climate in turmoil; the loss of loved-ones to incarceration, addiction and suicide.
A unique resource for both academics and practitioners, School District Budgeting provides a comprehensive look at the resource allocation process, from developing planning guidelines to reporting the results of financial operations.
In a very real sense, Michael Lodato has been working on this handbook for over 45 years - starting in 1968 when, as a new CEO of a small consulting company, he attended a seminar on strategic planning at UCLA.
Winner of the 2016 IWCA Outstanding Book/Major Work AwardDrawing from her decade leading Salt Lake Community Colleges Community Writing Center (CWC), Tiffany Rousculp advocates cultivating relationships within a rhetoric of respect that recognizes the abilities, contributions, and goals of all participants.
This book charts the firsthand experiences and challenges faced by Maltese early childhood educators in the implementation of a novel approach to the curriculum: the replacement of a prescriptive curricula with one co-constructed by the educator and the child.
Improving School Board Effectiveness offers a clarifying and essential look at the evolving role of school boards and how they contribute to efforts to improve student learning.
While several texts provide pedagogical and theoretical insights on improvement science for faculty, graduate students, and educational leaders, practitioners' voices are seldom heard.
Enhancing Campus Capacity for Leadership contributes to the growing tradition of giving voice to grassroots leaders, focusing on the largely untapped potential of faculty and staff on college campuses.